Beef prices going up????

[NDbowman]

On the flip side, if I pencil out my per pound cost of venison, game birds, or worse yet fish, beef prices aren’t too bad. When you drive a fair distance with a doe tag in hand, the cost per pound adds up quick. I don’t need a rifle, grinder, or vac sealer for my beef. It costs a lot but I don’t have near the steps that involved.

My Dad says that all the time about hunting, when he sees the road hunters driving up and down the roads every morning and every night, hes like they should just buy beef, it'd be cheaper than all the gas they're burning.
He also tells me that I could fatten a steer or two with all the corn I feed baiting a deer and then I'd have better tasting meat. The joke is on him, I'll keep baiting deer and fatten a steer also.

 

[Catfishermen4201]

Did some fun math this morning. I looked at the number of hamburgers sold by mcdonalds every day in the us. Google told me there is a little over 5 million sold every day. So I'll go with 5 million as a beginning. 5 million burgers, assume 1/4 lb each comes to 1.25 million lbs of beef. Average carcass weight of slaughter cattle is about 1000 lbs with about half of that being meat. This results in 2500 slaughter cattle every day for just one fast food restaurant. Or an annual use of 912500 cattle every year. The total number of slaughter cattle in the US annually is 34 millionish. That's some interesting math given the number of fast food joints, other restaurants, grocery stores, and other consumers like us plain ole schmoes. The latest numbers I could find put the DoD in 2011 at 95 million pounds of beef consumed that year for the military members and families. Keep in mind my math skills are on par with Alaskan skills at coconut production. So please check my math. I'm not a chicken little kind of guy, but the writing on the wall is getting pretty damn big right now. We imported a record 4.6 billion lbs of beef in 2024. Imported beef had better be robust and stable is all I can say or look out.

KDM,

McDonald's as well as other fast food companies have admitted to using 100% beef...the problem is the math doesn't add up does it? This is because the beef is lab grown, and also 3D printed, and most of those steaks we eat are meat glued together, true story! There is absolutely no way there are enough slaughter cows to make those numbers work...in your math you have to understand you need to take out the other cuts IE steaks, briskets, ribs, all of that...unless we raise it ourselves or buy local a person is eating artificial meats, sad really!